Cloth-pressing-machine buck.



No. 343,331. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

J. EGKER. CLOTH PRESSING MACHINE BUCK. PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP AN. 25, 1905.

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PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

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J. EGKBR.

CLOTH PRESSING MACHINE BUCK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 25 1905 JACOB EOKER, OF C CLOTH-PRESSING HICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented reb.-5,19o7.

Application filed January 25,1905. Serial No. 242,658.

To all whmn it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JACOB ECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in l the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have l invented a new and useful Improvement in Cloth-Pressing-Macizine Bucks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved construction of the buck or presser-bed provided to cooperate with the sad-iron, more particularly on a cloth-pressing machine, such as that forming the subject of Letters Patent No. 818,753, granted to me April 24, 1906.

IVhen in pressing-machines of the class referred to or in hand-work the buck is unheated, the under side of the preparatorily dampened work is not dried, like the upper surface thereof, by heat, but is still moist when the pressing operation is completed and tends to swell, and thus impair the effect of the press- 1 ing, besides becoming glossy in drying and requiring the gloss to be removed by steaming or otherwise, involving labor and waste of time.

My object is to provide a buck of improved construction generally, as also in detail, to adapt it to be heated with gas or other heating medium, such as electricity, and used in the heated condition to the best advantage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved buck by a view in end elevation with its gas-burner in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross'section of the same; Fig. 3, a section taken at the line 3 on Fig. 2, viewed in the direction of the arrow and reduced Fig. 4, a section taken at the line 4 on Fig. 2 viewed in the direction of the arrow and reduced; and Fig. 5, a broken view, partly sectional, of the gas-burner, the gasburner being partly in section on the line 5 of Fig. 1.

The buck, as shown, is composed of a cast ing of oblong general rectangular shape I formed with a top a, a preferably narrow base I), outer side walls 0 c, and inner side walls (Z (Z, forming therewith the side chambers e e and also forming the central chamberf, which has open con'imunication with the side chambers through longitudinal series of openings 9 in the upper parts of the walls (1 (Z. The top a is shown to project beyond one side wall 0 and is reinforced by diagonal braces h. The chambers ef extend throughout the length of the device and are open at both ends, and one end or each end, as shown in Fig. 4, if i desired, is provided with a deflector "L, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The burner-tube 7c is closed at one end and provided with a conical mixing-chamber It on its opposite end and with longitudinal series of gas-jet openings 7: and an injector pipe Z is supported in the open enlarged end of the chamber in and connects at said end with a valved pipe m adapted to be connected, as byrubber hose, (not shown,) with a gassupply pipe. The tube 7c is supported near each end in a bracket n, the depending end arms a of which contain vertically-clongated slots n", through which the bracket is adjustably fastened to the ends of the walls d by screw-bolts n inserted into the latter and serving'to secure the bracket at any height to which it is adjusted in accordance with the gas-pressure employed. Thus supported the ,burner-tube extends lengthwise centrally through the chamber j, and when ignited the hot products of combustion are distributed from the central chamber through the openings 9 into the side chan'ibers and the distribution of heat uniformly heats the top a.

The spent products of combustion discharge at the open ends of the chambers, thus beyond any work that is imposed on the top a to be pressed, and where a deflector 'i is provided it further shields the work against access to it of the hot products of combustion and against the burning or scorching tendency thereof.

On one side of the buck is provided a row of stationary screws 0, projecting horizontally from it through a clamping-bar 1), each screw being surmounted by a spiral spring 0, confined under compression in a thimble p by a wing-nut p on the outer end of the screw. Thus clamps are afforded for the free end of a dampening-cloth q drawn taut over the top a to be next to the under surface of the dampened work to be pressed, and the dampening-cloth is held by the clamping-bar p.

The springs in the clamps tend to free readily the bar p by forcing outward the thimbles p when the clamping-nuts are loosened.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cloth-pressing buck comprising, in combination, a hollow metal body having imperforate outer walls and inner walls forming in said body a central chamber and, with said outer walls, side chambers, the chambers being open at both ends and said inner Walls containing openings through which the chambers intercommunicate, a gas-burner in said central chamber, and shields on said body extending over and covering the open ends of the chambers and operating to deflect doWnwardly the hot gas escaping therefrom.

2. A cloth-pressing buck comprising, in combination, a hollow metal body having a flat upper pressing-surface, imperforate outer Walls, and inner Walls forming in said body a central chamber and, with said outer Walls, side chambers, and a gas-burner supported in said central chamber, said. inner Walls containing openings through which the chambers intercommunicate and the chambers being open at both ends of said body to dis- I charge the hot products of combustion from i the burner beyond the Work imposed on said buck.

3. A cloth-pressing buck comprising, in combination, a cast-metal body formed With a top and a bottom and outer and inner Walls between them forming open-ended central and side chambers, said inner Walls having openings, a bracket adjustably supported on said body, and a gas-burner supported on said bracket to extend in said central chain'- ber.

JACOB ECKER.

In presence of J. H. LANDES, L. HEISLAR. 

